Politics & Government News

4:32 PM on Wednesday, September 3

The U.S. Department of Justice has requested access to voting equipment used in the 2020 election in two Missouri counties in what appears to be a wide-ranging effort to more closely monitor election processes around the country

4:06 PM on Wednesday, September 3

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is insisting that he isn’t dropping his reelection campaign after reports he had been approached about potentially taking a job with the federal government

3:58 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Peru’s former President Alejandro Toledo has been sentenced to prison time for the second time in a case involving Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht

3:51 PM on Wednesday, September 3

As Congress returns for a busy fall stretch, President Donald Trump is reaching into the affairs of the legislative branch, chiseling away at the separation of powers

3:41 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Republican senators say they are prepared to change the chamber’s rules to get around the Democratic blockade of President Donald Trump’s nominees, discussing a proposal to make it easier to confirm multiple nominees at once

2:50 PM on Wednesday, September 3

A federal judge has returned full control of policing practices to the Seattle Police Department

2:42 PM on Wednesday, September 3

The deadly U.S. military attack on a boat accused of carrying drugs in the Caribbean is the latest in a series of extraordinary measures that President Donald Trump has taken to combat the threat he sees from the Tren de Aragua gang

2:09 PM on Wednesday, September 3

It's an issue uniting the left and the right

1:46 PM on Wednesday, September 3

A federal judge in Boston has ordered the reversal of over $2.6 billion in federal funding cuts to Harvard University

12:25 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Chicago residents are bracing for an influx of military patrols and immigration agents in the coming days

12:23 PM on Wednesday, September 3

India moves to cut taxes on hundreds of consumer goods ranging from air conditioners to small cars to bolster local consumption and cushion the economy from the blow of steep U.S. import tariffs

11:45 AM on Wednesday, September 3

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy’s support was crucial to Robert F

11:21 AM on Wednesday, September 3

Authorities say a researcher from Italy is missing after falling into a stream on Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier

11:19 AM on Wednesday, September 3

The United States has approved $32.5 million in assistance to Nigeria to help address hunger, in a rare shift in U.S. foreign policy since President Donald Trump abruptly suspended most aid through the U.S. Agency for International Development

9:46 AM on Wednesday, September 3

Florida plans to become the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates that have been a cornerstone of public health policy for decades in keeping schoolchildren and citizens safe from infectious diseases

9:09 AM on Wednesday, September 3

The Democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and California have created an alliance to safeguard health policies, believing the Trump administration is putting Americans’ health and safety at risk by politicizing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

5:56 AM on Wednesday, September 3

The pictures from this week’s military parade in Beijing commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the earlier economic gathering would seem to offer a striking, maybe even defiant, message to the United States and its allies — evidence of a possible new reconfiguration of rising power in Eurasia, an “Axis of Upheaval,” as one U.S. analyst has called it

5:49 AM on Wednesday, September 3

Search teams have recovered around 100 bodies from a remote village in Sudan's Darfur region after a landslide devastated the area over the weekend

5:36 AM on Wednesday, September 3

President Donald Trump is suggesting that New Orleans could be his next target for deploying the National Guard

9:05 PM on Tuesday, September 2

President Donald Trump has affirmed that the United States will keep a robust military presence in Poland as he held a warm meeting with Karol Nawrocki, the new president of the American ally in Europe